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And ifוְכִיyou sayתֹאמַרin your heart,בִּלְבָבֶךָ“Howאֵיכָהshall we knowנֵדַעthe wordאֶת הַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהhas notלֹאspoken?”דִבְּרוֹ
Deuteronomy 18:21
Study it in the app“And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word that YHWH has not spoken?””
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 18:21, word by word
- you sayתֹאמַרtomar
think
To speak inwardly without saying it aloud; to think.
Where else “tomar” appears- in your heartלְבָבֶlevave
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levave” appears- shall we knowנֵדַעneda
acknowledge
To acknowledge YHWH: admit that he is God.
Where else “neda” appears- the wordדָּבָרdavar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- spokenדִבְּרdibr
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “dibr” appears
The context
20But the prophet who acts with arrogance by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”
21 · This verse (above)
22When the prophet speaks in the name of YHWH and the word does not come about or come true, that is the word that YHWH has not spoken; with arrogance the prophet has spoken it; you shall not be afraid of him.